Music playlist for the end of the world

Skeeter Davis, 'The End of the World'

Yes, we know it's technically a song about how the world is actually not ending, despite the doom feelings after a breakup. A Mayan apocalypse might finally make us feel justified for acting as if it's all going to hell every time we're dumped. So if we're all going down in flames, at least we'll have some sweet and funny classic country to see us through to the end. -- August Brown Listen to "The End of the World"

Yes, we know it's technically a song about how the world is actually not ending, despite the doom feelings after a breakup. A Mayan apocalypse might finally make us feel justified for acting as if it's all going to hell every time we're dumped. So if we're all going down in flames, at least we'll have some sweet and funny classic country to see us through to the end. -- August Brown Listen to "The End of the World"

What better comeuppance could there be for an ancient civilization than if the Maya were right all along about Earth exploding in a sulfurous inferno? Granted, everyone else is going down with it, but we'd put this funk-metal classic one on to remind ourselves that the Maya saw this coming (or at least ran out of calendar space in a way that coincided with the end of days). -- August Brown Listen to "People of the Sun"

What better comeuppance could there be for an ancient civilization than if the Maya were right all along about Earth exploding in a sulfurous inferno? Granted, everyone else is going down with it, but we'd put this funk-metal classic one on to remind ourselves that the Maya saw this coming (or at least ran out of calendar space in a way that coincided with the end of days). -- August Brown Listen to "People of the Sun"

Dec. 21 marks end of the world, according to some interpretations of the Mayan calendar. Doomsday preppers may be stock-piling gas masks and Velveeta, but what about some tunes to go along with that paranoia? A playlist for the End Times from the Los Angeles Times: